- From: pat hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>
- Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 13:57:23 -0600
- To: "Peter F. Patel-Schneider" <pfps@research.bell-labs.com>
- Cc: w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org
....
> > >
>> >This change means that the language tag is significant for typed literals.
>>
>> Can you elaborate on your response? In what way does this make the
>> language tag 'significant'?
>>
>> I fail to see how it does. It explicitly and directly ignores the
>> language tag, by treating any typed literal with a language tag in
>> exactly the same way as the similar literal without the language tag.
>>
>> Maybe we have failed to communicate somewhere?
>
>Under the above semantic constraints "a"@fr^xsd:integer and
>"a"@en^xsd:integer do not necessarily denote the same element of the domain
>of discourse. Therefore the language tag is significant for typed
>literals.
Oh, I see. It is significant for *ill-formed* typed literals. OK, I
can tweak that easily enough. Will do.
...
> >
>> What I should do, obviously, is simply refer to the Concepts doc and
>> use the terminology there. Then the statement of the condition would
>> be as follows:
>>
>> if sss is well-balanced, self-contained XML element content and ttt
>> is a language identifier [RFC-3066] then
>> IL("sss"[@ttt]^^rdf:XMLLiteral) is the canonical form of the XML
>> document corresponding to the pair <sss, ttt>, as defined in [RDF
>> Concepts]; and otherwise, IL("sss"[@ttt]^^rdf:XMLLiteral) is not in
>> LV.
>
>This is now consistent with RDF Concepts. However, the treatment in RDF
>Concepts is ridiculous. Why in the world should the meaning of an RDF XML
>Literal include this wrapper junk?
Take that up with the relevant editors. At this stage I just want to
get the documents consistent. I am not the XML guy on the WG, I defer
to others when it comes to the 'best' way to use such a ridiculous
and barbaric notation; its like asking what is the best kind of wood
to use to build a suspension bridge.
But obviously I do not speak for the WG here.
Pat
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